ICYMI: “A #OnePlaceAdverts View of 1875 in Wing, Buckinghamshire,” recently added to our blog, was written by Alex @wychwoodnz.bsky.social in response to our #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt for January.
Be sure to follow 1876 news—and ads—from Wing, via Alex's hashtag #1876OPS.
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Going back to 1875 #OnePlaceAdverts for @oneplacestudies.bsky.social #OnePlaceStudies #LocalHistory www.one-place-studies.org/a-oneplaceadverts-view-o...
Another possibility (possibly requiring luck and/or great search skills!) is to find 1 or 2 particularly interesting adverts which could be used as the basis for a story; a more wide-ranging look at #OnePlaceAdverts could follow later after that representative sample is gathered. #OnePlaceWednesday
Meanwhile January’s prompt, #OnePlaceAdverts, is still generating responses, including a new post on our blog, Blackpool Advertisements, by our member Mick Warner. #OnePlaceWednesday
A selection of advertisements today for #OnePlaceAdverts from the #IllustratedLondonNews of 31 Jan 1903. Interesting that chocolate was seen as sustenance for women and children only. The men were too busy diving onto rocks. #localhistory #oneplacestudies #historicaladverts
A quick look back through some adverts in and about Loughborough! How things have changed down the years! Enjoy! #OnePlaceAdverts #OnePlaceStudy lynneaboutloughborough.blogspot.com/2026/01/adve...
There were also turnip scuffles. But thankfully, no full-on turnip fights. 😉 #OnePlaceAdverts #OnePlaceWednesday
Great to see more posts inspired by our current #OnePlaceStudies blogging & social media prompt, #OnePlaceAdverts. Info in property sale notices can include owners and occupiers of houses and land, and lists of household goods, farm stock and implements, and tools used in trades. #OnePlaceWednesday
One of the jobs on my to-do list is to investigate #OnePlaceAdverts for #Sudbourne. I looked at a couple of ‘situations wanted’ for last year’s A-Z blogging challenge but am keen to see what else I might find #OnePlaceWednesday
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This paragon of powders was advertised as available from Moulding; Palmer; and Tayler in Aldbourne
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Source: British Newspaper Archive / Moulding family history
Marlborough Times 1860. Source British Newspaper Archive. Advert reads "BROTHER FARMERS Wheeler's Pastry Powder is used at North Farm, making bread, which it greatly improves, both for lightness and whiteness. Valuable testimonial from Eton College: Wheeler's Pastry Powder has been well tested in the kitchen, and found to answer admirably"
"Highly approved in the Royal Household, Wheeler's Pastry Powder produces a handsome, wholesome and delicious article in pie-crusts ... and all kinds of pastry" As supported by the inventor of the celebrated Agricultural Liquid Drill, Mr Chandler of Aldbourne #OnePlaceAdverts Marlborough Times 1860
Another for #OnePlaceAdverts, this time from the Preston Herald, 23 April 1883. Three Swineherd Lowe Farms are situated in Haslingden Moor #OnePlaceStudy area (two upper, one lower), this one was to be let with 59 acres, and access to the common land on the High Moor.
#Lancashire #FarmingHistory
Still no #OnePlaceAdverts blog posts from me, but I have updated this page on my Waters Upton #OnePlaceStudy website by adding 100+ advertisements or notices of property sales by auction from 1803 to 1899. So much info on houses & land, owners & occupiers, and their possessions! #OnePlaceWednesday
The #OnePlaceStudies blogging and social media prompt for this month, #OnePlaceAdverts has prompted me to post an article 'Advertising New Zealand in the 1870s' used to encourage emigrants on the Woodlark in 1874. app.weare.xyz/public/the-w...
This appeared in the Blackburn Standard of 9 June 1852. A request for a couple, the wife "must be capable of taking charge of the dairy".
I came across this as part of my #OnePlaceStudy research into the farming area west of Haslingden, Lancashire.
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Check out how my new blog post for #OnePlaceAdverts.
Our #OnePlaceStudies blogging / vlogging / social media prompt #OnePlaceAdverts inspired Julie Muirhead @thelineagefinder.bsky.social to look at historic newspapers – and at how to record and organise the adverts (and other OPS content) found within them. Check out Julie’s new post on our blog...
Wrote a blog post for @oneplacestudies.bsky.social #OnePlaceAdverts because oh boy do I have plenty of adverts to hand thanks to #1876OPS and the decade or so of its predecessors.
Blogging and Social Media Prompt, January 2026: #OnePlaceAdverts. WANTED. Wanted: One-Placers eager to explore the topic of advertising in the places they study. To include advertising placed by, or likely to be seen by, one-place study residents, in any format including posters, handbills, and newspaper advertisements, relating to goods and services, events and charitable appeals, situations wanted and vacant, items lost and found. Please respond via blog / social media posts, or via short videos. www.one-place-studies.org/blogging-prompts/ One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
Although I’ve provided suggestions for this month’s #OnePlaceStudies prompt #OnePlaceAdverts (in the form of an advert!), other interpretations are—as always—welcome. For example, you may wish to look at how you advertise your OPS to people living in or connected to your place. #OnePlaceWednesday
I picked #OnePlaceAdverts as a 2026 #OnePlaceStudy prompt because I was working on a project to extract small ads relating to my Waters Upton OPS! No blog posts about them (yet!), but I have posted about the 2 pages—with nearly 500 adverts between them—now added to waters-upton.uk #OnePlaceWednesday
Blogging and Social Media Prompts January - July 2026. January: #OnePlaceAdverts. February: #OnePlaceNetworks. March: #OnePlaceClothing. April: #OnePlaceVisitors. May: #OnePlaceArchaeology. June: #OnePlaceCarers. Image: Woman sitting at a desk with a keyboard and large computer screen. Link: www.one-place-studies.org/blogging-prompts/ One-Place Studies, where family history and local history unite.
A #OnePlaceWednesday reminder of our blogging, vlogging and social media prompts for the first half of 2026. These can be used by anyone seeking ideas for #OnePlaceStudies or place-based #FamilyHistory writing or video creation. This month's prompt is #OnePlaceAdverts.
My first job this #OnePlaceWednesday is to write a blog for the @oneplacestudies.bsky.social website about this month's blog prompt #OnePlaceAdverts.
What's everyone else up to?
The second of two batches of small ads relating to my #OnePlaceStudy of Waters Upton in Shropshire is now online. Poultry, horses, dogs, traps, eggs, motorcycles and even Peacocks feature in For Sale, Wanted, Lost, and Found ads! #OnePlaceAdverts
Thank you! This has been in the works for a long time, with a second page of other types of small ads to follow. I very much hope I can pull together some of the stories these #OnePlaceAdverts can tell, or augment, about the people of my #OnePlaceStudy.
To tie in with the #OnePlaceStudies blogging and social media prompt for this month, #OnePlaceAdverts, I have just added a new page to the website for my Waters Upton OPS in Shropshire. Hopefully some of these 300+ sits vac and wanted ads will feature in a blog post or two in due course!
Hopefully within the next month I will complete the pre-1858 wills and probate coverage, with abstracts of Waters Upton wills going back to 1534. Before that though, to coincide with the #OnePlaceStudies blogging prompt for January 2026, I have two new pages full of #OnePlaceAdverts in the works!
